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Outrage!
NYC Evicts Occupy Wall StreetWorkers and
Students, Shut the City Down!At 1 a.m. on
November 15 hundreds of New York City
police descended on Zuccotti Park in the
city’s financial center to shut down
Occupy Wall Street. Ordered by
billionaire mayor Mike Bloomberg, the
dead-of-night police attack is the
culmination of two months of mounting
pressure from NYC authorities and the
recent unrelenting propaganda barrage
against OWS from the media, both
conservative and liberal. The eviction
was part of a nationally coordinated
crackdown, coming just a day after a
similar attack on Occupy Oakland in
California, and weekend raids in
Portland, Oregon, Denver and Chapel
Hill, North Carolina. Democratic and
Republican mayors have been united in
their determination to put an end to the
occupations. In the face of the cop
assault on OWS, what is urgently called
for is a massive mobilization of labor’s
power to bring New York to a standstill
over this police-state repression.
Within hours of the police attack, the
Internationalist Clubs at the City
University of New York (CUNY) together
with Class Struggle Education Workers
and the IG distributed hundreds of
leaflets calling for “Workers and
Students, Shut the City Down!”Outrage!
NYC Evicts Occupy Wall Street –
Workers and Students, Shut the
City Down!(15 November 2011)

“99%” Populism
Is No SolutionExpropriate Wall Street
Through Socialist RevolutionOccupy Wall Street:
A Marxist AnalysisIn
the two months since Occupy Wall Street
burst onto the scene it quickly swept the
nation. There have been over 600 occupations
in cities across the U.S., and many more
around the globe. In New York City, “All
day, all week, Occupy Wall Street” is not
just a protest chant but an accurate
description of local politics. The “Occupy
movement” has crystallized a popular mood of
anger and frustration as the world enters
the fourth year of a full-fledged economic
depression. Thousands of students burdened
under a mountain of debt and college
graduates unable to find work have taken to
the streets to protest. Unions have given
different kinds of support. But while
denouncing the filthy-rich “1%” in the name
of the other 99% of the population, it has
not put forward any program for what is to
be done. And the various demands and
proposals floated by Occupy proponents do
not challenge the capitalist system. While
there are diverse tendencies among the
occupiers, the
ideological glue that has held them together
is bourgeois populism. But in the course of
the struggle, particularly under the blows
of repression, political outlooks can change
sharply. Expropriate
Wall Street Through Socialist Revolution (14
November 2011)

Expropriate Wall Street Through
Socialist Revolution!NYPD: Guard Dogs of
Finance CapitalStudents and Workers: Shut the
City Down!On
October 1, the New York Police
Department lashed out at the “Occupy
Wall Street” protesters, arresting
over 700 demonstrators as they
marched into a police trap on the
Brooklyn Bridge. Coming after the
arrest of 85 OWS protesters a week
earlier, and the videotaped
pepper-spraying of trapped women
marchers by a top police official,
the mass bust provoked outrage in
the NYC population. On October 5,
tens of thousands came out at the
call of the labor unions in
solidarity with the protesters and
against the wanton police brutality.
CUNY Internationalist Clubs marched,
chanting “Students and
workers, shut the city down!” Many OWS
demonstrators have huge illusions in
the police, calling on them to join the protests.
Cops are not fellow workers but the
armed fist of capital. Despite
vituperation in the right-wing media,
the vast majority of the protesters
are not radicals but angry liberals.
The occupation’s list of grievances
points toward a slightly reformed,
“green” capitalism, while protesters
have been waving the American flag,
symbol of U.S. imperialism. Yet
tinkering with financial regulations
will not solve mass unemployment,
racist repression and imperialist war.
Most of the left has written gushing
articles about the occupation,
refusing to tell the truth, that
capitalism cannot be reformed to
“serve the people,” it must brought
down through a struggle
for workers power.NYPD:
Guard Dogs of Finance Capital(5 October 2011)

Internationalists
Protest Imperialism’s “Dr. Shock”What the
Hell Was Economic Hit Man Jeffrey
Sachs Doing at Occupy Wall Street?On October
7, economist Jeffrey Sachs spoke at
the Occupy Wall Street protest in
the New York financial district.
High-flying academic Sachs is
notorious for implementing free
market capitalism with a vengeance.
He made his reputation with economic
“shock treatments” that produced
misery and death for untold numbers
of working people in Bolivia, Poland
and the former Soviet Union. When
Internationalist supporters learned
of his appearance at OWS, we rushed
to the square to expose this
economic hit man and inform those
present of his crimes. Here is some
of the evidence. The fact that this
top capitalist privatizer and
imperialist criminal was invited to
spout off at OWS says a lot about
the agenda of those who
invited him.What
the Hell Was Economic Hit Man
Jeffrey Sachs Doing at Occupy Wall
Street?(99
October 2011)

Georgia to Carry
Out Legal LynchingTroy Davis
Case Shows: There Is No Justice in the
Capitalist CourtsMobilize
Workers’ Power to Smash the Racist
Death Penalty!On
September 20, the Georgia State
Board of Pardons turned down the
appeal of Troy Davis to commute
his death sentence. Davis was
convicted and sentenced to die for
the 1989 shooting death of an
off-duty Savannah police officer.
There have been worldwide
demonstrations demanding that he
not be executed. Last week more
than 630,000 letters were handed
to the Board asking to stop the
execution of Davis on the grounds
that there is “too much doubt”
about this case. In fact, massive
evidence shows that beyond a
shadow of a doubt Troy Davis is
innocent. If Georgia carries out
the death sentence, it will be
nothing less than state murder, a
legal lynching. It will show, as a
number of black Georgians bitterly
remarked to the press, that racist
Jim Crow “justice” is alive and
well in the state that was the
lynching capital of the South in
the 1920s. It will demonstrate
that for the racist U.S. injustice
system, innocence is not a defense
– especially for a black man
accused of killing a white cop. It
will prove, once again, that there
is no justice in the capitalist
courts. But the legal lynchers can
be stopped, by mobilizing the
power of the working class. It
will take nothing less than
socialist revolution to sweep away
this rotting
system that lives on death.Troy
Davis Case Shows: There Is No
Justice in the Capitalist Courts(211
September 2011)

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It Will
Take Socialist Revolution to End Racist
RepressionNYPD’s
“Stop and Frisk”: Racist Attack on Black,
Latino and Immigrant Youth